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Im super busy covering sessions and meeting many of your fellow HR/benefits practitioners here in Las Vegas at the 2011 Society for Human Resource Management national conference, but I wanted to give you a brief update on some of the great things Ive seen and heard here so far.
June 27
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The New Jersey Assembly on June 23 approved a bill that will require 750,000 government employees and retirees to contribute substantially more for their health insurance and pensions.
June 27 -
The National Association of Health Underwriters is gathered in the most visited city in Texas for the organizations 81st annual convention from June 26 29.
June 27 -
Benefit brokers have a growing opportunity to help clients incorporate comparative effectiveness research into value-based health plan design, a just-released survey suggests.
June 27 -
Rep. Mike Rogers told the House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee last week that health insurance agents and brokers are in a "desperate situation," due to medical loss ratio determinations.
June 27 -
More 401(k) participants are invested in single target-date, balanced fund or managed account advisory services, according to Vanguards How America Saves 2011 report.
June 27 -
On June 17, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced new procedures for health plans with limited benefits to obtain temporary waivers of the restrictions on annual dollar limits that were imposed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
June 23 -
A few months ago, I compared the Obama administration to Oprah Winfrey when it seemed to be giving away waivers to escape annual benefit limits outlined in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in the same gleeful and brazen manner that Oprah used to bestow gifts and cars on her studio audience.
June 23 -
Advisers should work closely with health insurers to improve service fundamentals that drive employer satisfaction and commitment to benefit sponsorship, suggests new research that also identifies the best-performing vendors.
June 23 -
Writing out retirement income plans is a great way for financial advisers to increase client satisfaction, gain more referrals and ultimately increase assets yet few of them do it, according to a new study from Fidelity Investments.
June 23
